Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  House 1977

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Too much formal invention not to be impressed or at the very least entertained during a first time watch.

  I really thought Kung Fu was gonna make it out alive in her underwear.

  This is the kind of movie that attracts a certain intelligence because it tickles a specific curiosity. (Think The Room.) I am not one of those people.

  Caught the midnight screening at the Landmark in Old City Philadelphia. The projector/media file/computer/etc would stall every 30 or so…

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  A Woman Is a Woman 1961

  ★★★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  First night in Philly for spring break.

  Caught in 4K at the Film Society Bourse.

  Dingy theater with an endearing charm to it.

  I was first to the screening room, not too early. I expected to be only one of a handful. But the crowd thickened soon enough. A foursome decided to sit directly in front of me.

  I got up and moved one row back. A couple came in and sat behind me, but left the chair at my…

Popular reviews

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ½ Rewatched 14 Feb 2024

  45 minutes in: I wanted to pause here because this is when Matt Damon enters and already the tense, stick-in-the-mud atmosphere is beginning to lift.

  The contempt for Communism is hardly amusing. Nolan's characters talk a big game about "growing up" out of left-wing sentiments so that they can be adults and build bombs. May we never grow up. I'm sure there's a real case to be made that publicly labeling yourself as Communist in America at the time did…

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  Sasquatch Sunset 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Apr 2024

  I keep trying unsuccessfully to assign any kind of meaning to this film. Maybe I'm too reliant on dialogue to form an opinion on plot or character dynamics. Which is a shame because I love when movies aren't reliant on words to walk me through a story.

  One thing that bothered me was the seasonal chapter cards. I don't see how they were necessary to what was happening. The only purpose they served, to my mind, was to reassure the…